What was “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and why did it face a lot of backlash from the LGBTQ+ community?
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I served in the Army during DADT. Units still used the rumor mill to punish and discharge soldiers even SUSPECTED of being gay. Soldiers who had same-sex relationships were constantly being broken up and transferred elsewhere. No benefits, no death benefits, no housing, no visitation. If you knew a soldier who was gay, and you liked them, you KEPT YOUR MOUTH FUCKING SHUT. And that’s not even talking about the culture of systemic rape against queer servicemembers. What are they gonna do, report it?
Oh and Iraq? Literally every porta-shitter you went in to, on ANY US base? DOZENS of e-mail addresses scrawled out in Sharpie, advertising M4M. Clinton really thought he was doing some thing to strike a compromise, when really, he was a triangulating piece of shit who gave official cover to what was already a barbaric set of practices.
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